Afrasianet - Israel has suspended air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport after a security incident, according to news reports.

Thousands of passengers were stranded on Ben Gurion Airport for a long time and a number of flights were delayed, the site said.

He explained that the Hebrew media revealed a few moments ago that "the Israeli Ministry of Security with the Aviation Unit in the Israeli army stopped the air traffic in the airspace over the airport for security reasons did not clarify."

He noted that the airspace was closed for three hours, and that the movement of aircraft returned to normal, but 11 flights were delayed, and the authorities are reorganizing the air traffic.

The spokesman for the Israel Airports Authority said that "there was no emergency security incident, and that the sky / open / did not close, and that the reason for the delays was the airport spacing between the dates of some aircraft and the dates are arranged again," according to the site "Bakra" news .